Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Lori-Anne’s Blog
  • Kyle’s Paintings
  • Tales of The Mother Load
  • Contact

Tag: home

A Place on Pandosy

  By editor May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 Features

  So, let me tell you about my addiction: house porn. I love looking in houses. Show homes, open houses, magazine layouts of professionally styled rooms, house-themed blogs, you name it. And a couple of years ago I discovered MLS (realtor.ca), where I can actually tour local homes for sale … Continue reading

Tagged   heritage home, home, house, house hunting, Kelowna, real estate

Tasteful in the Kitchen

  By editor January 4, 2012 January 4, 2012 Features

I want to show off a couple of my Christmas presents. Not everything, you understand (a girl’s got to have some secrets) but some that I thought were especially “Pear Tree-ish” (read practical mixed with fanciful, and somehow connecting us with the past or tradition). But first, I’m going to … Continue reading

Tagged   cookery, decor, egg carton, home, kitchen, measuring spoons, style, utensils

Gentle at Home

  By editor December 21, 2011 December 21, 2011 Features

“Gentle, at home,/ amid my friends I’ll be/ Like the high leaves/ Upon the holly tree.” -Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1890 This year The Pear Tree House will be hosting our annual family Christmas get-together. We do a traditional turkey dinner (despite the fact that about half of us are vegetarian!), … Continue reading

Tagged   Christmas, decoration, dinner, entertaining, home, table, tablescape

Decking the Halls, Fa La La La La!

  By editor December 9, 2011 December 9, 2011 Features

There used to be a holiday home tour in Kelowna called Homes for the Holidays, that had professional decorators work with private home owners to turn their places into festive things of beauty. The homes would then be opened to ticket holders to come and tour and gather ideas and … Continue reading

Tagged   Christmas, decorations, holidays, home, link-up, linky party, ornaments, style

Home Sweet Gingerbread Home

  By editor November 30, 2011 November 30, 2011 Features

I was ready to move into more than one of the little houses on show at the second annual Gingerbread House Event at the Parkinson Rec Centre in Kelowna last weekend. With their royal icing eves troughs, gumdrop shingles and icing sugar snow, who wouldn’t be tempted? The sweet infused competition and … Continue reading

Tagged   candy, decorate, gingerbread, home, sweet

Early Influences

  By editor November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 Features

I grew up on Little Golden Books. The older ones – like How Big and The Little Book and Bow Wow Meow. Like most kids, I was taken in as much – if not more – by the illustrations as the words that accompanied them. But it wasn’t until I … Continue reading

Tagged   books, children's literature, decorating, home, home and garden, Little Golden Books, style

The Piano

  By editor February 23, 2011 April 12, 2011 Features

We recently acquired a piano at the Pear Tree House. A lady in my church is moving into an assisted living residence and can’t take it with her, so she was just giving it away to a good home. I started learning to play the piano at the age of … Continue reading

Tagged   home, music, piano, Wurlitzer

A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

  By editor September 24, 2010 April 12, 2011 Features

    We’re trying something new this month. Every Friday through the month of September we’re opening this space up to you. I give you a topic and you write about it on your own blog. Then, in the comments section of this post, provide a link to your blog … Continue reading

Tagged   blog, choose with no regret, dream, home, meme, write

A Taste of Home

  By editor May 10, 2010 May 14, 2010 Food

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore, The Brook Kerith One thing I’ve come to know for certain is that no matter how long you live in a place, you can never entirely get your roots … Continue reading

Tagged   cooking, Food, home, home fries, Lorna Crozier, mennonite, potato, prairie
  • Welcome to my blog.
    I’m Lori-Anne.
    I’m a writer, photographer, wife, mother, coffee lover, adventurer and dreamer. Did I mention I love old stuff? Pour yourself a cup of something hot and stay a spell – I’d love to get to know you!


  • Categories

  • Home
  • About
  • Lori-Anne’s Blog
  • Kyle’s Paintings
  • Tales of The Mother Load
  • Contact
Copyright © Pear Tree House Productions
Powered by Parabola & WordPress.